arning this man from oakland was arrested for pimping a 15- year-old run away at this motel. >> sunnyvale. san francisco you expect that. big city. but around here it is shocking. >> reporter: he met the teen on social media and has been exploiting her for the last month. they spotted the girl on the website back page.com and tipped off police. an officer ranged to meet the girl. police found him nearby with $6,500 in cash and a motel key. >> he had sexually abused her. and that he was aware of her age. and that he had also physically assaulted her. >> she says he used force and fear on the girls and it represents what is happening in

the county. $1.2million has been dedicated to fight a crime that is referred to as modern day slavery. >> given it is such a tragedy of a crime, even one person being exploiticide too much. >> reporter: this -- exploided is too much -- exploited is too much. >> reporter: if convicted he could face up to 15 years in prison. he is held on $1 million bail and will be in court tomorrow morning. as for the victim, she is getting help with housing and with counseling services. >> are authorities looking for more victims in the case? >> reporter: you know, i asked that question and they tell me right now they are only prepared to talk about this one victim. >> thank you. we are hearing from a girlfriend of one of three men accused of raping a woman who

was held hostage and weeks inside a home near santa rosa. deputies arrested the three men including the owner who was the master mind. the men held a woman captive for two months and police say they sexually assaulted her repeatedly before she escaped through an unlocked door last week. this morning the girlfriend of one of the suspects told us the victim was living there similarity with him. and they say the two had an ongoing relationship. despite the fact that he was married. >> wasn't kidnapped. she wasn't held against her will. >> the victim reported to us that she was not free to leave. she had to make an escape. when she saw the opportunity she was able to make her escape and free herself. >> investigators say it doesn't appear the victim knew the

suspects. the men are scheduled to make their appearance in court tomorrow. to developing news in the north bay. right now an investigation is underway after a body was discovered inside a home. tonight officials are calling the death suspicious. the body was found around noon inside a house along rose avenue near pen grove. ktvu's cristina rendon joins us from the scene with what she learned. >> reporter: we have been talking to neighbors and all of them tell us the family who owns the property are nice people. the family owned the land for several years and that is why neighbors find it surprising the sheriff's office is out here investigating the case as a suspicious death. as you said, this report came in around noon today. a person came to this farm house and discovered a body. they immediately called for help and investigators rushed to the area. they had investigators from different divisions with the sheriff's department out here

going through the experior. they would not say this case is a homicide. they are classifying it as a suspicious death. we talked to neighborhoods to see if they heard or saw anything suspicious. one woman said the family did rent out the property and as well as storage units. >> they rented the pastures out for horses. as far as seeing who -- i am not here enough to see what happened. i mean as far as any wrong doings going on. >> reporter: again the investigation is being very closely held within the department. they are not saying anything other than this is a suspicious death. investigators will be out here into the evening hours looking into this. a lot of resources are dedicated to the investigation. we should know more or hope to tonight at 10:00 p.m. >> cristina rendon, thank you. . the medical examiner narrowed down the cause of

death r a baby found yesterday. yolo county deputies say justice rees drowned or died of hypothermia. justice rees and his mother disappeared on monday. someone found the mom crying tuesday. search teams worked through the night before finding the baby yesterday morning on the bank of a slough. police said the city's first homicide in two years may have started as a home invasion. the man who was killed hasn't been identified and neither has the suspect. except to say he is 27. a woman who was a friend of the victim was attacked and she remains in critical condition. the crime has shaken the res dents. hundreds of human bones unearthed in fran and now we are get -- in san francisco and now we are getting an idea of where it came from.

now it is drawing to a close. ktvu's christien kafton tells us it started with a remodeling project that turned up more than a thousand human bones. >> reporter: a team of ark yawlgists are looking for clues to a mystery that unfolded in fort mason. . >> a hospital from the 1860 said. and we found a large pit, which is a bone filled pit. >> reporter: four years ago crews preparing to turn this hospital into housing, the remodel came to a halt when crews discovered human bones. >> it took a day to confer with the coroner and with law enforcement to make sure this was not a current scene. >> reporter: teams unearthed skulls, leg bones, arms.

1400 human bones all neatly buried in a small hole in the ground. but not one complete skeleton. >> they were bones when they were placed in the pit itself. >> reporter: buried with the bones, dozens of medicine bottles from the 1860s. all thrown in a trash heap. they have developed a theory about the bones. >> they seem to be related to teaching. thiseem to be -- they seem to be related to examines that took place for determining cause of death. >> they now believe a doctor at the hospital in the 1860s likely used the bones to train new doctors. in the 1880s the new doctors simply dumped the teaching material in a hole in the backyard. >> the next set of doctors were not interested in maintaining them.

>> more work will be done analyzing the remains that were found along with the other materials that were found in the pit. the hope is to make a lot of information about the material available online. christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. the long port labor dispute will have a lastic impact on west coast ports -- lasting impact on west coast ports. they plan to ship less cargo through west coast ports for the rest of this year and next year. they were surveyed this week. shippers have been saying this for the last month, meaning their positions have not softened. others say because they are transporting perishables, switching to gulf coast or east coast ports is less likely. teamsters rallied today trying to get the attention of bus driver whose shuttle around tech workers. the drivers are set to cast

ballots tomorrow on whether to unionized. the drivers pick up and drop off workers. they make $40,000 a year and say that is not enough to support families. the union doubts the companies will react negativitily to a no -- negativatively to a no vote. >> reporter: [ inaudible question ] >> the focus is going to be on them. we will do what we need do to pressure them into hiring people and paying them decent wages. >> the drivers work for compass transportation with contracts out. >> apple is putting out the word of a big media event 11 days from now. the invitation is on the left. says spring forward, which is a reference to the changing of clocks clocks and most likely the apple watch. it is monday, march 9 a day

after we reset our clocks. april introduced the watch in september and is ready to release it in april. pg&e going up for an upgrade. >> using more and more power. and we are improving the infrastructure to make sure it is there. >> another health scare for b.a.r.t. riders. what you need to know about a passenger diagnosed with the measles. >> sprinkles towards the weekend. what that means for saturday and sunday. >> and a live look right now that thursday evening commute. a live picture of 80 near university avenue in berkeley. headlights are drivers heading south. it is heavy. >> look at the toll plaza for the bay bridge. jammed up. looks like a morning commute there. the headlights heading into san francisco. really heavy for a thursday night commute.

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>> an explosion at a tech company injured two people and triggered a hazmat call. police say two employees were using hydrogen, it reacted and caused the explosion. they suffered minor burns and were brought to the medical center. there was no risk to the public. the company works on new energy solutions. for the second time in the month b.a.r.t. confirms a passengers with the measles road into san francisco. the patient was on b.a.r.t. last friday afternoon between 4:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.

health officials say this is the county's fourth confirmed measles patient. earlier this month another patient road a busier b.a.r.t. line from contra costa county into san francisco. the california highway patrol is kicking off a recruitment campaign to diversify. the diversity of officers is lower than the state patrol. 7-10 chp officers are white. compared to 4-10 californians who are white. this weekend they will hold recruitment seminars across the state including in concord where they are looking to add more women to the force. >> women had a hard road. with the fire departments across the state. many coming under court order and being forced to diversify. >> the california highway patrol will start accepting online applications on monday

on its website. facebook announced a change to its gender identity options today. last year facebook added a list of 58 gender options that you could choose from. now it at ad59th option. fill in the -- it added a 59th option, fill in the blank. you can add your own identity. transgender supporters hope this will open up more dialogue and accept. pg&e is -- anticipateddance -- acceptance. >> reporter: pg&e is upgrading miles and miles of pipeline. ktvu's tom vacar went along to see how it is done. >> reporter: helicopters, pg&e is replacing two 27 miles of power lines from highway 4. more than 50 miles of line in all. the helicopters erected new support arms at the top of the towers so the low arms could be

removed. >> helps for ground clearance and we can put more capacity through the lines and reach further out with the power into the east bay. >> reporter: now they are installing new insulators. doing this from the air results in little or no environmental impact on the habitat under the tower and have far fewer employees making the dangerous climbs to keep up with the growing demand from the rapidly increasing population of users. >> increase in demand. customers are out there and they need more electricity. >> reporter: the bottom line is to get as much of this new power line up and operating because not only is it more reliable it carries more power.

>> bigger capability than the old conductor. >> reporter: other projects are underway or planned. pg&e says it is paying off. >> since 2009 we have seen the duration of outages consistently decrease. and in 2014 we were able to provide our customers record reliability. we have the fewest number of outages in company history. >> reporter: even though we are using more solar and wind power it still needs power lines to get it. tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. a new poll finds a majority of californians see the drought as a big problem. 73% of bay area voters say it is serious. 63% in los angeles. 55% of bay area residents favor

similarity cut backs and 39% support mandatory rationing. what is happening with the wert, over to -- weather, over to bill in the weather center. >> couple sprinkles in the forecast. back to the survey. 63% of los angeles thinking it is not serious -- [ talking at the same time ] >> raises our blood up here. amazing. it is dig county -- significant. [ talking at the same time ] >> clouds moving in. scattered showers in the forecast. not enough to change the reservoir levels but enough to slow your driving around on saturday. funny, you know this, you know, growing up in the state, west coast, there is a lot of southern california, northern california thing, the water issue is huge. most of their water falls up here and we send it down there. 74 napa today. 73 santa rosa. 72 oakland.

72 redwood city. highs tomorrow, cooler. numbers drop off 10 degrees or so. here is the system i am tracking. it is coming from here. cold. also drier because it is colder. if i pointed down here, warmer and moisture. when you get things from the north of like that, dropping snow levels. snow 4500 feet or so. and sunday morning as well. and you are going to be looking at light rain accumulations. the forecast for tomorrow will be cooler than today. these are the right now temperatures. highs tomorrow look like 59 -- we are not going to see mid- 60s. temperatures upper 50s. low 60s. a temperature fall off. the winds switch directions. westerly wind. san francisco 60 degrees tomorrow for a day time high. clouds. patchy coastal fog and clouds

coming in over head. 62 san jose for a high tomorrow. the forecast model, the timing is good. friday morning looks fine. friday afternoon. looks fine. few sprinkles. and then saturday, right, saturday morning, sprinkles around san jose. saturday afternoon. sprinkles and showers. that model -- probably got the timing accurate but the location of the showers is probably not that accurate. 62 at this point. 62 mountain view. the reason is, it is an air mass thing. not really a clean frontal pass. a lot of cool unstable air. widely scattered stuff. i am not changing my plans. nuisance stuff. >> thank you. san jose's plans for a fire

museum got a kick start today. they donated a million dollars to the city. that money will be used to buy the own fire station one. and then plans call for it to be turn said into a museum. >> we are such a dedicated group, firefighters and retired firefighters, this is going to be an incredible addition to downtown and to the legacy of the fire people. >> the donation was the couple's way of celebrating their 63 anniversary. another $14 million is still needed for the design and renovation. >> 63 years. warriors take on lebron james and the cavaliers in cleveland and some are calling tonight's game a preview of the nba finals. joe fonzi is coming up with sports. now to the news room, gasia mikaelian with a look at what we are working on for ktvu fox 2 news at 7:00 p.m.

the man from london who has been identified as jihadi john. also one of the big hits on the red carpet, now thieves made off with her $150,000 dress made of pearls. working on these stories and more coming up at 7:00 p.m. on tv 36.

. joe is here with sports. this is the match-up. steph curry against lebron james. >> this is a big one tonight. it is the regular season but there is something special. the warriors shooting around earlier today before their game three of a six game trip. golden state split the first two games so far. tonight's game different than the one in january which lebron james was a spectator. klay thompson and steph curry combined for 47 points. there is a little something special about this one. >> it is big for us. we feel like awe like to approach every game the same way. we want to be ready. we want to be prepared. it is a great team.

national tv. it is an exciting game. something we are looking forward to. >> a lot of things for the a's to get used to, training at a new facility with a roster that is nearly as new. even he would have to take time to get used to all the new faces and he says it is not just about dumping names and salaries. there is a plan. >> talk about losing guys that were important, those guys were no names when they got here. and became name players. we give them challenges, if you perform you will be put in an opportunity be successful. >> a judge reinstated minnesota vikings star running back adrian peterson. he was suspended by the nfl on a child abuse chase and denied an appeal. more to come on that story. >> you were just down in spring training. are the facilities -- [ talking

at the same time ] >> they are state of the art. look at their stadium, that has been renovated. looks like a new stadium and the training facility is state of the heart. that will be their training facility. somebody gets hurt, they go down there. >> they must love that. thank you. coming up tonight at 10:00 p.m. vehicles vandalized with hateful words. the messages that have victims terrified and outraged. tonight at 10:00 p.m. see you then.

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